Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Based on Erdrich’s grandfather’s struggle against Indian Termination Policy, follow the parallel stories of two employees at a jewel-bearing plant: a Chippewa council member seeking justice against the Policy and a young woman on a mission to find her sister. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “You can never get enough of the…

Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Sassy, independent housekeeper and female writer develop a subversive relationship which comes crashing down after a dirty little secret is pried wide open. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “I know now, what I didn’t then, that affection can’t always be expressed in calm, orderly, articulate ways, and that one cannot prescribe the…

Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 An author attends a symphony in Oslo and an unexpected event causes her to relive the repressed traumas of her youth almost five decades earlier at age 16. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “Anything you want to forget will come back to you, it will haunt you so vividly that if feels…

Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Fifteen year old Istvan’s sexual affair with an older married woman is the beginning of his tumultuous life. Notes/Thoughts📝 “He has this feeling, with women, that it’s hard to have an experience that feels entirely new, that doesn’t feel like something that has already happened, and will probably happen…

Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 A hypnotic and chaotic narrative about a widowed painter in Norway that finds his doppelgänger and goes on a journey of spiritual self-discovery. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “It’s always, always the darkest part of the picture that shines the most, and I think that that might be because it’s in the…

Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Former Nickelodeon child actor reveals her abusive relationship with her mom. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “I don’t like knowing people in the context of things. “Oh, that’s the person I work out with. That’s the person I’m in a book club with. That’s the person I did that show with.” Because…

Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Yiyun Li shares the tragic loss of her sons to suicide. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “Fiction, one suspects, is tamer than life. “ “And yet life is still to be lived, inside tragedies, outside tragedies, and despite tragedies.” “The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; / not in silence, but…

Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Elena, a mother with advanced Parkinson’s, investigates her daughter’s suicide. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “She doesn’t have a timetable. Her time is measured in pills.” “Never isn’t a word hat applies to our species, there are so many things that we think applies to our species, there are so many things…

Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Chang revisits the fragmentary memories of childhood and cultural influences (fashion, cinema, Peking Opera, etc. ) that shaped her life as a woman and writer in war time Shanghai and Hong Kong. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “For people who are too shy to speak, clothes are a kind of language, a…

Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Non clout chasing relationship advice from plants and living beings via indigenous lens. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “Leave this place better than you found it.” “The land knows you even when you are lost.” “The questions scientists raised were not “Who are you? but What is it?” No one asked the…